Learn to diagnose RFI numbering.
You’re checking the project’s RFI register.
A request for information now has a repeated prefix. Before changing the record, work out which part was typed manually and which part Procore added.
Begin the Procore lesson Procore web · RFIs · Original teaching exampleBrowser exercise requires no Procore account
Identify why a Procore RFI displays a repeated prefix.
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Show me the question and answer first How the Course worksRead the setting. Explain the record.
You’re a project coordinator preparing an RFI register for review. Stage prefixes were enabled after some RFIs already had manually typed prefixes. One now appears as PRE-PRE-009.
With Admin permission on the project’s RFIs tool, open RFIs → Configure Settings and inspect the project-stage prefix configuration. Compare it with the RFI’s stage and existing number.
You can distinguish a stage prefix from text already in an RFI number, and identify the checks needed before correcting it.
This is an inspection task. Enabling stage prefixes is permanent; do not enable them on a live project as a practice step. If you do not have the required access, use the exercise below.
Where did each part come from?
Same configured stage prefix. Different existing number.
Original Propfessor teaching diagram, not a Procore screen or a connected project. Both fictional records have a stage whose configured prefix is PRE.
Procore adds PRE and a separator to a number that already starts with PRE. The repeated text can come from the two prefix mechanisms, without there being two RFI records.
A duplicate prefix. A duplicate record?
The number alone cannot tell you that. Diagnose how the label was assembled first.
Give me a tutor hint
Split PRE-PRE-009 into the stage prefix and the pre-existing number. Which part could have been typed before stage prefixes were enabled?
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The Course teaches you to trace the number. The Companion helps you work through the specific record in front of you.
Include the tool, the setting and the identifier you are investigating. Use a redacted example if the project is confidential.
“In Procore RFIs, our number was PRE-009. After stage prefixes were enabled it became PRE-PRE-009. Is it duplicated, and what should I inspect?”
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propfessor.Companion exampleCheck the two sources of the prefix.
The identifier is consistent with a stage prefix being added to an already prefixed number. That alone does not establish a duplicate RFI.
Inspect the record’s stage, the configured prefix and the existing number. Once confirmed, an authorised user can edit the manually entered part. Preserve the intended identifier and check references before making a correction.
Explore Procore coverageIn an authorised Procore project with stage prefixes already enabled, inspect one RFI and explain each part of its identifier. Leave the settings unchanged. The page cannot verify your work in Procore.
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